World of O News

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very interesting leg from the Swedish Championships Long distance, organized on September 15th. The chosen leg has been used both in the men and women elite course – and in both cases it is the 14th leg.  The leg is as usually ...

Ready for some fun? We start off this year’s Route to Christmas with an interesting leg from the Oceania 2019 Long Distance in Australia. The chosen leg is the 4th leg in the men’s class. This is not the longest leg in the race – we save that one for later ...

A hugely surprising win by Chinese athlete Shuangyan Hao in the women’s class and an even more surprising third place by Li ZhuoYe (also CHN) in the men’s class was the big headline at the World Cup final Sprint in Songtang, China on Sunday. This was the first ever Sprint World ...

An issue involving runners crossing an out-of-bounds area in the men’s class at the World Cup Middle distance race in China this weekend has led to a lot of discussions. The jury decided to not disqualify any of the runners crossing the out-of-bounds area, and the International Orienteering Federation has promised ...

Switzerland with Elena Roos on the last leg won the Sprint Relay in the World Cup Final in China after a tight battle against Sweden (3 teams in the battle for the win on the last leg) and Norway. In the end one top Swiss teams was better than three Swedish, ...

Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Gustav Bergman (SWE) won the Middle distance race at the orienteering World Cup final in China today. With this win Bergman secured the overall World Cup win in the men’s class while Alexandersson – who was already overall World Cup winner ahead of these races – ...

The orienteering World Cup visits China for the first time ever the last October-weekend of 2019 with three races being organized: Middle Distance Saturday afternoon (14:00 local time/08:00 CEST), Sprint Relay Sunday afternoon (14:30 local/ 07:30 CET) and Sprint Tuesday afternoon (14:00 local / 07:00 CET). This is the fourth and ...

[Including GPS-analysis] Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Yannick Michiels (Belgium) won the World Cup Sprint in Switzerland on Sunday. This was Michiels second World Cup victory – and Alexandersson’s 7th in this season alone. With this Alexandersson decided the overall World Cup already before the last World Cup round in China. ...

[Updated with maps from Qualification and Quarter-final] Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Vojtech Kral (CZE) took the victories in Saturday’s World Cup Knock-Out Sprint in Laufen, Switzerland. Both showed excellent performance throughout all of the day, winning their Quarter-Final and Semi-Final races. Alexandersson won her 6th World Cup victory of 6 possible so far ...

  Friday’s World Cup Middle distance in Switzerland gave Swiss success as usually on homeground: Double victory in the men’s class with Joey Hadorn and Daniel Hubmann ahead of Swedish Martin Regborn, and Swiss second and third place in the women’s class with Simona Aebersold and Sabine Hauswirth behind Swedish ...